AEW's FTR Reveal When They Lost Faith In WWE

Back on April 10, WWE announced they had released The Revival. It had long been known that Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder were unhappy in the company, and the popular tag team have since repackaged themselves as Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler of FTR and signed with All Elite Wrestling.

Harwood and Wheeler recently appeared on Jim Cornette's podcast to discuss their time in WWE and revealed when they lost faith in the company. Dax explained they didn't trust the wrestling behemoth after the Raw 25th-anniversary show in which they were defeated by Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson in under two minutes and then beaten down by D-Generation X.

Harwood said: "I've never shared this story before, but we had Raw 25. The infamous Raw 25 where we thought that we were Hunter's guys. We really did because we worked so hard for so long to make NXT mean something… We believed in NXT, and we believed in Hunter, and we wanted to make NXT work, and the respect that we had for Hunter.

"And then Raw 25 came along and we had heard rumblings that day about what we were doing and then we found out, it broke my heart, man. And I hope that doesn't sound corny or cheesy. But that was when Hunter and all of The Kliq came out and they just ran through me and Dash. They hit us with every one of their finishers. We came to the back and, this is rough, but I came to the back, I walked right through gorilla and I punched the wall. It was a brick wall. I punched it as hard as I could and I started flipping out.

"I remember Cash just like grabbed me and he's just, 'Calm down. It's going to be okay. It's going to be alright,' and I like was in tears, not because I was sad, I was so upset and hurt because a guy that we, and we still do, a guy that we had so much respect for, we couldn't believe he would allow that to happen to us. But on the flip side of that, it's not his company. He doesn't call the shots, Vince calls the shots."

Wheeler added: "It's not even so much like the actual segment. It was some of the comments and stuff before and after it. Obviously, we're out there to do a job for those guys. To shine them up and make them look good, and they've been around forever and they've accomplished a ton, but I felt like they just didn't respect us, what we were about to do. And like afterwards, we couldn't even get so much as a glance from any of them… Actually one did say thank you and it was X-Pac, he was very appreciative. He said thank you, he said, 'It was a pleasure working with you guys. I've been a fan of yours for so long. Thank you guys for doing that.' Everyone else walked right past us. No handshake, no thank you, no nothing… That really hurt us and I can't say anybody loses faith in Hunter. I'm not sure if we lost faith in Hunter that day as much as we just lost faith in that particular company, in that particular business, and we just knew from then on that wasn't the place for us."

FTR have since signed with AEW and will be making their in-ring debuts on this week's episode of Dynamite. Watch Dynamite live and on-demand on FITE here.